Written Answers Tuesday 7 July 2009

Scottish Executive

Fuel Poverty

Johann Lamont (Glasgow Pollok) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum’s Equalities Working Group will first meet.

Alex Neil: : The Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum’s Equalities Working Group held its first meeting on 23 June.

Fuel Poverty

Johann Lamont (Glasgow Pollok) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the minutes of the Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum’s Equalities Working Group will be made public.

Alex Neil: Minutes of the forum meetings are published on the Scottish Government website and these will, from July, include a report back from the newly formed Fuel Poverty Forum’s Equalities Working Group. My officials provide the secretariat for the main Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum, but not for its subgroups or working groups.

Housing

Mary Mulligan (Linlithgow) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many households have applied to the mortgage to rent scheme in each month since May 2007.

Alex Neil: The number of households who applied to the mortgage to rent scheme in each month since May 2007 is contained in the following table:

  

 
2007-08
2008-09


April
 
48


May
35
34


June
33
47


July
34
48


August
34
40


September
22
48


October
38
58


November
34
53


December
26
31


January 
35
40


February
37
44


March
36
44


Total 
364
535